1940–41 Montreal Canadiens season

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1940–41 Montreal Canadiens
1940–41 record	16-26-6
Goals for	121
Goals against	143
Team information
General Manager	Tommy Gorman
Coach	Dick Irvin
Captain	Toe Blake
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	John Quilty (18)
Assists	Toe Blake (20)
Points	John Quilty (34)
Penalties in minutes	Red Goupille (81)
Wins	Bert Gardiner (13)
Goals against average	Bert Gardiner (2.75)

<1939–40	1941–42>

The 1940–41 Montreal Canadiens season was the 32nd season in club history. The team placed sixth in the regular season to qualify for the playoffs. The Canadiens lost in the quarter-finals against Chicago Black Hawks 2 games to 1.

Contents

1 Regular season
- 1.1 Final standings
- 1.2 Game log
2 Playoffs
- 2.1 QuarterFinals
3 Player stats
- 3.1 Regular season
- 3.2 Playoffs
4 Awards and records
5 Transactions
6 Roster
7 See also
8 References

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League
	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
Boston Bruins	48	27	8	13	67	168	102
Toronto Maple Leafs	48	28	14	6	62	145	99
Detroit Red Wings	48	21	16	11	53	112	102
New York Rangers	48	21	19	8	50	143	125
Chicago Black Hawks	48	16	25	7	39	112	139
Montreal Canadiens	48	16	26	6	38	121	147
New York Americans	48	8	29	11	27	99	186

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Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Game log

Regular season results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	T	November 3, 1940	1–1 OT	Boston Bruins (1940–41)	0–0–1
2	L	November 10, 1940	1–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1940–41)	0–1–1
3	L	November 14, 1940	2–6	Toronto Maple Leafs (1940–41)	0–2–1
4	L	November 16, 1940	2–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1940–41)	0–3–1
5	T	November 17, 1940	4–4 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1940–41)	0–3–2
6	L	November 21, 1940	1–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1940–41)	0–4–2
7	W	November 23, 1940	3–1	New York Americans (1940–41)	1–4–2
8	L	November 24, 1940	1–2	@ New York Americans (1940–41)	1–5–2
9	W	November 26, 1940	3–2	@ Boston Bruins (1940–41)	2–5–2
10	L	November 30, 1940	1–6	@ New York Rangers (1940–41)	2–6–2
11	L	December 5, 1940	2–3	New York Rangers (1940–41)	2–7–2
12	W	December 7, 1940	3–2	Detroit Red Wings (1940–41)	3–7–2
13	L	December 12, 1940	3–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1940–41)	3–8–2
14	W	December 15, 1940	2–1 OT	@ Detroit Red Wings (1940–41)	4–8–2
15	L	December 19, 1940	0–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1940–41)	4–9–2
16	W	December 21, 1940	3–1	Boston Bruins (1940–41)	5–9–2
17	W	December 26, 1940	7–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1940–41)	6–9–2
18	W	December 28, 1940	3–0	New York Americans (1940–41)	7–9–2
19	L	December 31, 1940	2–4	@ New York Americans (1940–41)	7–10–2
20	W	January 1, 1941	2–1	@ New York Rangers (1940–41)	8–10–2
21	T	January 4, 1941	3–3 OT	New York Rangers (1940–41)	8–10–3
22	L	January 5, 1941	0–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1940–41)	8–11–3
23	L	January 7, 1941	3–4 OT	Toronto Maple Leafs (1940–41)	8–12–3
24	L	January 9, 1941	1–3 OT	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1940–41)	8–13–3
25	L	January 11, 1941	1–2	Boston Bruins (1940–41)	8–14–3
26	L	January 12, 1941	5–7	@ Boston Bruins (1940–41)	8–15–3
27	W	January 16, 1941	5–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1940–41)	9–15–3
28	W	January 18, 1941	2–1	Detroit Red Wings (1940–41)	10–15–3
29	L	January 23, 1941	2–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1940–41)	10–16–3
30	T	January 25, 1941	2–2 OT	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1940–41)	10–16–4
31	L	February 2, 1941	1–2	@ New York Rangers (1940–41)	10–17–4
32	L	February 4, 1941	3–5 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1940–41)	10–18–4
33	T	February 6, 1941	4–4 OT	Detroit Red Wings (1940–41)	10–18–5
34	T	February 8, 1941	3–3 OT	New York Americans (1940–41)	10–18–6
35	L	February 9, 1941	3–6 OT	@ New York Americans (1940–41)	10–19–6
36	W	February 11, 1941	6–2	New York Rangers (1940–41)	11–19–6
37	W	February 13, 1941	6–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1940–41)	12–19–6
38	L	February 15, 1941	0–5	Boston Bruins (1940–41)	12–20–6
39	L	February 16, 1941	1–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1940–41)	12–21–6
40	L	February 20, 1941	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1940–41)	12–22–6
41	W	February 22, 1941	7–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1940–41)	13–22–6
42	L	February 27, 1941	2–5	@ New York Rangers (1940–41)	13–23–6
43	L	March 1, 1941	1–3	New York Rangers (1940–41)	13–24–6
44	W	March 2, 1941	3–2	@ New York Americans (1940–41)	14–24–6
45	W	March 6, 1941	4–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1940–41)	15–24–6
46	L	March 8, 1941	0–4	Detroit Red Wings (1940–41)	15–25–6
47	L	March 9, 1941	0–8	@ Boston Bruins (1940–41)	15–26–6
48	W	March 15, 1941	6–0	New York Americans (1940–41)	16–26–6

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Playoffs

QuarterFinals

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Player stats

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Quilty, JohnJohn Quilty	C	48	18	16	34	31
Benoit, JoeJoe Benoit	RW	45	16	16	32	32
Blake, ToeToe Blake	LW	48	12	20	32	49
Getliffe, RayRay Getliffe	C/LW	39	15	10	25	25
Chamberlain, MurphMurph Chamberlain	LW	45	10	15	25	75
Demers, TonyTony Demers	RW	46	13	10	23	17
Lach, ElmerElmer Lach	C	43	7	14	21	16
Adams, JackJack Adams	LW	42	6	12	18	11
Sands, CharlieCharlie Sands	C/RW	43	5	13	18	4
Drouin, PollyPolly Drouin	LW	21	4	7	11	0
Reardon, KenKen Reardon	D	34	2	8	10	41
Goupille, RedRed Goupille	D	48	3	6	9	81
Portland, JackJack Portland	D	42	2	7	9	34
Graboski, TonyTony Graboski	LW/D	34	4	3	7	12
Trudel, LouLou Trudel	LW	16	2	3	5	2
Singbush, AlexAlex Singbush	D	32	0	5	5	15
Smith, StuStu Smith	LW	3	2	1	3	2
O'Neil, JimJim O'Neil	C/RW	12	0	3	3	0
Mantha, GeorgesGeorges Mantha	D/LW	6	0	1	1	0
Bibeault, PaulPaul Bibeault	G	4	0	0	0	0
Cude, WilfWilf Cude	G	3	0	0	0	0
Gardiner, BertBert Gardiner	G	42	0	0	0	0
Haynes, PaulPaul Haynes	C	7	0	0	0	12
Young, DougDoug Young	D	3	0	0	0	4

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Gardiner, BertBert Gardiner	2600	42	13	23	6	119	2.75	1
Cude, WilfWilf Cude	180	3	2	1	0	13	4.33	0
Bibeault, PaulPaul Bibeault	210	4	1	2	0	15	4.29	0
Team:	2990	48	16	26	6	147	2.95	1

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Benoit, JoeJoe Benoit	RW	3	4	0	4	2
Blake, ToeToe Blake	LW	3	0	3	3	5
Getliffe, RayRay Getliffe	C/LW	3	1	1	2	0
Chamberlain, MurphMurph Chamberlain	LW	3	0	2	2	11
Quilty, JohnJohn Quilty	C	3	0	2	2	0
Lach, ElmerElmer Lach	C	3	1	0	1	0
Sands, CharlieCharlie Sands	C/RW	2	1	0	1	0
Portland, JackJack Portland	D	3	0	1	1	2
Adams, JackJack Adams	LW	3	0	0	0	0
Demers, TonyTony Demers	RW	2	0	0	0	0
Drouin, PollyPolly Drouin	LW	1	0	0	0	0
Gardiner, BertBert Gardiner	G	3	0	0	0	0
Goupille, RedRed Goupille	D	2	0	0	0	0
Graboski, TonyTony Graboski	LW/D	3	0	0	0	6
O'Neil, JimJim O'Neil	C/RW	3	0	0	0	0
Reardon, KenKen Reardon	D	3	0	0	0	4
Singbush, AlexAlex Singbush	D	3	0	0	0	4
Smith, StuStu Smith	LW	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Gardiner, BertBert Gardiner	214	3	1	2	8	2.24	0
Team:	214	3	1	2	8	2.24	0

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Note:

Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals

Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

Awards and records

Calder Memorial Trophy : Johnny Quilty

Transactions

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Roster

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References

^ Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy et al. ed. THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
^ "1940–41 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/MTL/1941_games.html. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
^ http://www.databasehockey.com/teams/teamscores.htm?tm=MON&yr=1941
^ "1940-41 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/MTL/1941.html. Retrieved 2009-05-28.

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Culture and lore

Youppi • The Punch Line • Richard Riot • 1938 European tour

Arenas

Jubilee Arena • Montreal Arena • Mount Royal Arena • Montreal Forum • Bell Centre • Bell Sports Complex (practice)

Affiliates

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Television

SRC • RDS

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French	98,5 FM

Rivalries

Boston Bruins • Quebec Nordiques • Toronto Maple Leafs

v d e 1940–41 NHL season by team

Teams	Boston • Chicago • Detroit • Montreal Canadiens • NY Americans • NY Rangers • Toronto

See also	1941 Stanley Cup Finals • Transactions

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